GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Gamers: Get the most out of your Android device
We've looked long into the eyes of the Android, and we've come back with 10 must-have games, the best alternative app stores, and other tips for getting the most out of your mobile device.
The top 25 technology books of all time
Technology teaches us to forget the past. Last year’s tech news seems like it has no use whatsoever. Thankfully, historians beg to differ, and...
Joke app Happy Poo finds some success on Android platform
Urban dictionary defines turd polishing as “The act of trying to make something hopelessly weak and unattractive appear strong and appealing. An impossible process...
Roundup of the tech and game-related April Fool’s gags
Here’s a roundup of the tech or game-related April Fools jokes of the day. Did any of these trick you? Conan O’Brien buys Mashable and...
Google fools with Maps 8-bit for NES and Game Boy
Legendary prankster Google is out with some early April Fools’ tomfoolery ahead of schedule, teasing nostalgic gamers with an 8-bit version of its near-ubiquitous...
Amazon’s Android Appstore boasts 31K apps
Amazon is celebrating the first anniversary of its Android Appstore launch by putting a bunch of its most popular titles on sale. The company...
A roundup of stories from the Game Developers Conference
Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of...
Heyzap launches mobile API to add high-level analytics
Heyzap is launching a new applications programming interface (API) for its development tools for its social mobile gaming network that will deliver a lot more data...
Google promises a unified social and mobile game platform
Within the year, Google will turn its different game platforms into a single, unified platform that developers can more easily target. That’s the promise...